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  • 19-Oct-2006 Scoop
    NZ on track to sign FTA with China
    New Zealand remains on track to be the first developed state to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with China after completing a "business end" round of talks, a senior official said today.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Korea Times
    Internal memo shows Health Minister obstacle to FTA
    South Korea tried to cut a deal with the United States to break the stalemate over their bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) talks but an internal dispute nixed the attempt.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Malaysiakini
    Stop FTA talks and talk to the people
    Before and after every round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, the US Trade Representative provides briefings and reports to business and industry groups in that country. Why is the Malaysian government not disclosing any information on the talks to its own people?
  • 19-Oct-2006 Reuters
    Bush’s trade authority renewal: dead on arrival?
    If Democrats win control of Congress in November elections, the Bush administration is highly unlikely to win renewal of trade negotiating powers that expire in 2007, congressional aides and former lawmakers said on Wednesday.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Financial Express
    India to sign Bipa with Ethiopia
    India will sign an investment protection pact with Ethiopia as part of measures to increase the flow of capital as well as trade between the two countries, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Korea Times
    Police to dispatch 10,000 to Cheju for FTA talks
    The Korean National Police Agency has stepped up security for the nation’s free trade talks with the United States, sending 10,000 police officers to fend off protesters at the meeting venue on Cheju Island.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Prensa Latina
    Costa Rica questions US trade pact
    Costa Rican unions and social organizations confirmed their participation in a national strike against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, currently being evaluated in Congress.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Korea Times
    Korea demands recognition for generic drugs
    A Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for pharmaceuticals is likely to speed up in the fourth round of the FTA talks, which will begin place Monday on Cheju Island.
  • 19-Oct-2006 Africast
    South Africa to host extraordinary SADC summit
    The summit will focus on the current status of implementation of the Free Trade Area (FTA) in terms of the main activities required to complete the FTA by 2008.
  • 18-Oct-2006 News from Bangladesh
    Study suggests Bangladesh to ink FTAs with India, Pakistan
    A new study says Bangladesh should sign Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with India and Pakistan, but fails to identify what the FTAs would have in addition to South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA).
  • 18-Oct-2006 People’s Daily
    China, ROK agree to start negotiations on free trade area
    China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Friday agreed to start negotiations on a free trade area (FTA) as soon as possible.
  • 18-Oct-2006 People’s Daily
    Free trade agreement with Australia within two years: official
    China and Australia are looking to make substantial progress in free trade negotiations with the aim of signing an agreement within two years, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Chong Quan said on Monday.
  • 18-Oct-2006
    Bush to push free trade initiative at APEC summit
    US President George W. Bush is expected to push for a plan to improve the patchwork of free trade initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region at the annual APEC summit in Vietnam next month.
  • 18-Oct-2006 Bangkok Post
    Japanese ’upset by delay in FTA’
    Japanese investors have voiced concern over the Thai government’s decision to postpone a signing of the Thai-Japanese free trade area (FTA) agreement, according to the Commerce Ministry.
  • 18-Oct-2006 Houston Chronicle
    WTO’s Lamy warns about bilateral deals
    Poor nations will lose out if major global trade players opt for bilateral deals instead of working toward a global trade pact, WTO director general Pascal Lamy said Tuesday.
  • 18-Oct-2006
    Data exclusivity regulations in India
    New Indian data exclusivity patenting regulations will severely hinder generic AIDS drugs manufacturing in India, and thus less people will have access to AIDS therapy globally. The world’s poor overwhelmingly make up this population with lack of access. Because of this, moral human rights and distributive justice approaches should compel India to take an equity-oriented approach in access to AIDS medicines and reject data exclusivity regulations currently under discussion.
  • 18-Oct-2006 Upside Down World
    Canada’s quiet free trade agreement
    One of the agreements the Canadian government is trying to finalize is the Central America Four Free Trade Agreement (CA4TA) with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
  • 17-Oct-2006 Korea Times
    Uri Party proposes FTA-for-security deal
    “Protection of US investors comes with the provision of a nuclear umbrella for Korea,” the chief policymaker of Korea’s ruling Uri Party said yesterday
  • 17-Oct-2006 Prensa Latina
    Costa Rican sectors battle US trade
    The withdrawal of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States and development of alternatives are some of the actions proposed by deputies, social organizations and sectors that oppose to the ratification of that agreement on Monday.
  • 17-Oct-2006 Hankyoreh
    US FTA may cost drug industry $1.2 billion: gov’t
    A proposed free trade agreement with the United States is expected to cost as much as 1 trillion won (US$1.2 billion) in damage to the South Korean pharmaceutical industry if the US proposal for the deal is accepted, the South Korean government said.